Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain in Vichy-ruled Martinique in 1940, is hired by the French underground after a dispute with a client, Mr. Johnson, over an unpaid bill. The episode is a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the Warner Brothers screenplay To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, broadcast on October 14, 1946. Harry's ill-fated dealings bring him into contact with Marie Browning, a young American woman who has come to the island. Johnson is shot dead in the hotel, and Harry and Marie are questioned by the police. Their growing attraction develops as the underground pressures Harry to take on a dangerous job.
Characters: Harry Morgan, Marie Browning, Eddie, Mr. Johnson, Frenchy, Steve, Slim, Gerard
The transcript of “To Have And Have Not”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre from 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Baccault in To Have and Have Not. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
We've had many premieres on the Lux Radio Theatre. And tonight on our 12th anniversary, we bring you one of Hollywood's most fascinating couples, Together for the first time on the air, they are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, co-starred in Warner Brothers' thrilling screenplay, To Have and Have Not.
To Have and Have Not is a story of intrigue and action, with Lauren Bacall in the sultry and romantic role that won her instantaneous acclaim. To bring the Bogart family to rehearsals, we had to lure them from their brand new mountain home. Where, along with a dog, fourteen chickens and eight ducks, they are still in the process
of getting settled. No phone is yet, no tables and no drapes. But if you should drop in on a friendly visit of inspection, as I did, you'd find Lux flakes doing their part in washing, curtains, bed spreads, blankets, etc., etc., etc. When I commented on this fact, Bogey assured me that on his 54-foot yaw in Newport Harbor, which is the Bogart's home away from home,
Lux flakes are a standard part of the equipment, making this family loyal to Lux flakes on land and sea. It's curtain time and here's the first act of to have and have not, starting Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan and Lauren Bacall as Mary Browning.
In 1940, following the fall of France, the rule of the new Vichy government stretched to a group of islands due east and south of the tip of Florida, the French West Indies, among them the island of Martinique, the early evening, at the little town on the Martinique coast of both has just come into port.
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So if they're going to keep going, they must boost their supplies with used fats, or cut into the supply of fine soap making oils. And that would mean less soap for you. So don't throw a single drop of used fat down the drain.
Your dealer will give you four cents for every pound. Heard in our cast tonight where Tim Graham is Eddie, George Sorrell is Gerard, and Jack Croesan as Inspector Renard. Our music was directed by Louis Sovers.
This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear Miss Susie Slakeles with Joan Caulfield, William Holden, and Billy DeWolf.
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